Naked Performance Art on Wall St. Ends in Arrests
[An Nahar] Some artists got naked on Wall Street during a performance art piece -- and then they got jugged.
The two men and a woman were jugged on charges of disorderly conduct Monday morning outside the New York Stock Exchange.
Manhattan artist Zefrey Throwell organized the 5-minute social critique of Wall Street with dozens of volunteers acting like people at work.
And none of them looked like Dorothy Sebastian... | He says he didn't intend to provoke police
Public nudity is illegal most places. In what way could this not provoke those who chose the profession of enforcing the law? | and his target was U.S. and world financial institutions.
Among those jugged was Brooklyn personal trainer and performance artist Eric Clinton Anderson, who played a naked janitor outside the stock exchange's heavily guarded front door. He jokes, "Somebody needs to clean up Wall Street."
Arrested with Anderson were another Brooklyn man and a Queens woman. Police say they created a public disturbance.
Posted by: Fred 2011-08-03 |